Re: Difficulties in advertising a new branch to git newbies

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 30, 2007, 21:32 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwt34xksz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070130212511.GA5362@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>

Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> writes:

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> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:02:40PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> > I propose this warning be removed here. Otherwise, I either add text
>> > to my instructions telling the user to ignore the warning message they
>> > get, or else I go back to "-b build" and back to all the old problems
>> > it causes.
>> 
>> I rather leave warning, but (perhaps around 1.5.1) remove the
>> instructions. RTFM (err... I'm not sure we have one about detached HEAD).
>
> Or provide a "-q" flag to silence the warning ?

Or maybe make "-f" to mean "I know what I am doing, do not warn".

P.S. Jakub, *please* do not break the thread.